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using instead of to yield the unbiased sample variance, denoted :

This estimator is unbiased if the variance exists and the sample values are drawn independently with replacement. corresponds to the number of degrees of freedom in the vector of deviations from the mean,

Taking square roots reintroduces bias (because the square root is a nonlinear function which does not commute with the expectation, i.e. often ), yielding

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